WASHINGTON — Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our…
The two largest cities in the United States are Los Angeles and New York City. Both are dominated by Democrats and, last week, both provided excellent case studies in negligence and corruption. In the City of Angels, dereliction of duty…
Jimmy Carter’s funeral was Thursday, so you’d figure that might be one of the items in this week’s 5QT. It isn’t. Melissa summed up those proceedings exceedingly well, and I don’t have much of anything to add. Besides, I was…
Believing that a civil war occurred in the early 1970s, and that the show All in the Family communicated persuasively to the combatants and affected the outcome, James Poniewozik wrote in Time magazine on June 22, 2001: Archie Bunker spoke…
According to a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we can now blame forest fires on energy corporations: “Coal, oil, and gas companies are now directly linked to worsening forest fires across the western United States.” The…
SACRAMENTO — It didn’t take long for my predications of an insurance crisis to come true. In my American Spectator column in January, I predicted that California’s “rigged” insurance market was careening toward a crisis and leading “some companies to pull out…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — We’re all familiar with the “loser pays” system in litigation, also known as the “English rule.” Under that system, the party that loses a lawsuit must pay the winner’s legal fees — intended as a means to…
The great medieval Jewish philosopher and poet, Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, was based in Spain and aspired to live in Israel someday. He ultimately realized his dream. Famously, he wrote: “My heart is in the East, and I am at the…
